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Most Recent Articles - Reverse Chronological order
3/5/06 Overview of Family Law and Child Support Changes – Powerpoint Presentation
29/3/06 Child Support System Changes to Phase in between July 06 – July 08 - Fact Sheet
28/2/06 NCSMC Press Release: Child Support Changes
21/12/05 : FACTSHEET – SOLE PARENTS AND WELFARE TO WORK UPDATED
NATSEM Report: The Distributional Impact of the Proposed Welfare-to-Work Reforms Upon Sole Parents, as commissioned by the National Foundation of Australian Women.
Welfare to Workfare Public Campaign Kit.
1/12/05 Address to UNIFEM Informs Seminar November 24 2005: Realities and Solutions in Family Violence, by Dr Elspeth McInnes
7/11/05 NCSMC Press Release - NEWSTART NOT DESIGNED FOR SINGLE PARENT FAMILY NEEDS
23/9/05 NCSMC Press Release - NEW WELFARE RULES TO HIT DIVORCE PROPERTY SETTLEMENTS
21/9/05
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19/8/05 - NCSMC Press Release - FAMILY LAW COMMITTEE IGNORES DOMESTIC VIOLENCE DEATH TOLL
06/7/05 - Welfare to Workfare – Cartoons drawn by Kenton Miller - cartoons regarding the plight of single mums being forced to look for paid work - please feel free to use these images – once the document is saved or opened simply right-click on the image/s you like, select Copy and then Paste into your own document.
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17/6/05 - NCSMC’s Fact Sheet – Federal Budget 2005/06 and Sole Parents
17/6/05 - Spark Resource Centre’s Special Edition “Welfare to Work” Newsletter
14/6/05 - NCSMC Press Release - Child Support Taskforce Recommendations Make Children Worth Less
10/06/05- NCSMC Press Release - ASSESSING THE CHILD SUPPORT OVERHAUL
12/05/05 - NCSMC’s Budget Summary – Welfare Reform and Sole Parents
10/5/05 - WORK FIRST APPROACH LEAVES CHILDREN LAST – NCSMC’s response to Budget 2005/2006
10/5/05 - FAMILY LAW CHANGES MUST HAVE TRAINING AND RESOURCES FOR SAFETY – NCSMC’s response to the Attorney General’s announcement about implementation of family law reforms.
20/4/05 - “NCSMC’s Guiding Principles for further welfare reform affecting sole parents”.
12/4/05 - NCSMC Press Release - “Sole Parents Work Requirements to Keep Job Network Full”.
8/4/05 Fact Sheets: 1: False Allegations of Child Abuse by Michael Flood (PDF), 2: False Allegations of Domestic Violence by Michael Flood (PDF)
31/3/05 - NCSMC Press Release "When no worker is parenting, children miss out” response to government’s proposed welfare reform.
22/2/05 - NCSMC Press Release - Children at Risk from Welfare Reform” - response to Government’s proposal of “Work First, Welfare Second"
18/1/05 - NCSMC's submission to the Federal Attorney General's Department (Dec 04) in response to the Australian Government's Discussion Paper "A New Approach to the Family Law System: Implementation of Reforms".
18/1/05 - Workshop: "Sole Parents & Centrelink’s ‘Australians Working Together’ – Is Centrelink Working With Sole Parents?" This paper outlines the new participation requirement for Parenting Payment recipients, as well as some suggestions and strategies)
12/1/05 - National Welfare Rights Network's Fact sheet "Parenting Payment Participation Agreements" (DOC) This document provides a comprehensive summary of your rights and obligations regarding Centrelink's participation requirements if you are in receipt of the Parenting Payment.
25/11/04 - "His money or our money financial abuse of Women in intimate partner relationships" - Liz Branigan (PDF)
25/11/04 - ‘A Feminist Family Agenda: Putting the mother back into sole parenting’ - Liz Branigan and Shannon Keebaugh Council of Single Mothers and their Children (Vic) Paper for VCOSS Congress 2004 ‘Strategies for Equality and Inclusion’
8/11/04 - The Challenges of Securing Human Rights to Safety in Australian Family Law Frameworks - Dr Elspeth McInnes
- NCSMC Paper - Keeping Children Safe The links between family violence and poverty - Dr Elspeth McInnes
10/9/04 - NCSMC MEDIA RELEASE - Sole Parents Welcome ALP Promise of extra help to get work
7/9/04 - NCSMC MEDIA RELEASE ALP - Tax and Family policy and Sole Parents – Gains and Losses
Pre 2004
Some Facts and Figures about Sole Parent Families
Mother Jailed for trying to protect her child - NCSMC media release
NCSMC response to the Families Tribunal proposal
NCSMC response to Custody Inquiry - Media Release
Supplement to Submission to custody Inquiry
NCSMC's Submission to child custody enquiry
Australians Working Together (AWT) Centrelink Guidelines
The Useful Box A comprehensive online resource for Solo Mothers is now available and can be viewed here
www.positivesharedparenting.org link to website offering information on the issue of proposed 50/50 shared custody.
Submission to the consultation paper for the National Agenda for Early Childhood National Council of Single Mothers and their Children. June 2003
Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Paradigm for Child Abuse in Australian Family Law paper by Dr Elspeth McInnes (word format) may 2003
National Council of Single Mothers and their Children. submission to the consultation paper for the National Agenda for Early Childhood. June 2003
Parental Alienation Syndrome: A Paradigm for Child Abuse in Australian Family Law paper by Dr Elspeth McInnes (word format) may 2003
A Solo mother responds to compulsory workforce participation plans.
NCSMC submission to the Senate Community Affairs Committee hearing into the Australians Working Together legislation
"How Much Reform do we Need? The Case of Lone Parents" Dr Elspeth McInnes. Paper presented to ‘Towards Opportunity and Prosperity’ Conference. Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social Research April 4-5 2002
2001 Submission to the Family Law Council on the Best Interests of the Child
See Our New Child Support Page for Child Support Submission Nov 2000
Online Subscription now available
Working Strategies Project: Click to take you to an index page where you can view chapters online or download a PDF version.
Flying Solo Summer 2001
Paper for Melbourne Conference 2001 - Child Abuse in the context of Parental separation and Divorce
Submission from ASCA to the Federal Standing Committee on Family and Community Issues Sept 2001
2001 Submission to the Family Law Council on the Best Interests of the Child 2001
Child Support Submission May 2001
Flying Solo March edition 2001
Annual report for 1999-2000 (word format ) Mar 2001
Welfare Reform Paper (Author Elspeth McInnes) Dec 2000
Conference Resolutions Nov 2000
Sole Parent Resource Directory (in pdf format, download acrobat reader here,
Conference Programme Nov 2000
Flying Solo Winter 2000
NCSMC press release in response to welfare reform August 2000
Project Grant approved from OSW August 2000
NCSMC Single Mothers Working Strategies Network paper August 2000
Flying Solo January2000